MPavilion is Australia’s leading architectural commission and design event created by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Every year a temporary pavilion, designed by an outstanding architect, is erected in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. Over the summer, it becomes an innovative civic space for the community to enjoy a free, diverse cultural program. Nüüd Studio were commissioned to design the seating for the MPavilion 2021 season. The brief presented to Nüüd Studio was to design seating that would both compliment and activate the bright and joyful design of the MPavilion 2021 – The Lightcatcher by MAP studio (Venice). The seating had to be weatherproof, stackable, lightweight and easy to clean. With 50,000 visitors, attending over 250 events across a 5-month season, it was important that the seating be durable and versatile. Additionally, Nüüd Studio were asked to use sustainable materials and production practices where possible. Nüüd Studio’s response focused on enabling a universal shared desire to emerge from isolation and to embrace, share, reconnect and repair once again. The interactive and public nature of the MPavilion motivated Nüüd Studio to consider rituals of gathering, and how their design might allay the community's apprehension towards socialising in a post-pandemic era, by bringing people together in a playful and inviting way. The MPavilion 2021 'The Dancer' chairs were first conceived as a singular circle and the individual chairs as equal divided segments of the whole . The form and name of the chair were influenced by Henri Matisse’s painting 'Dance II'. When the chairs join in an embrace, they emulate the dancers holding hands representing togetherness and solidarity with clarity and simplicity. The chairs can connect together in one direction, forming an arc, or alternatively reversed to form waves or ribbons. The chairs’ ability to detach and connect, results in endless reconfigurations encouraging MPavilion attendees to become choreographers, experimenting with the way the space is used. It was important 'The Dancer' chair be as sustainable as possible, leading Nüüd Studio to fabricate the chairs from recycled milk and juice bottles that were shredded, melted, dyed and turned into plastic sheets. This material not only proved hardy, weatherproof and easy to clean, but by working directly on the process of making the material itself, Nüüd Studio were able to have complete control over the exact texture and colour of the chairs – ensuring they fit seamlessly into MPavilion 2021's aesthetic. 'The Dancer' chair was designed with the purpose of ensuring that patrons to MPavilion 2021 events have a positive, comfortable and enjoyable social experience at a time of uncertainty and anxiety . The MPavilion 2021 'The Dancer' chair is an instrument of joy, unity and repair that encourages the public to reconnect and engage across the spatial and cultural divides that have existed over the past two years.